ARTICLES: Margaret Kelleher, Writing Irish Women’s Literary History [5] Mary C. King, Typing Dorian Gray: Wilde and the Interpellated Text [15] John McAuliffe, Taking the Sting out of the Traveller’s Tale: Thackeray’s Irish Sketchbook [25] Patrick J. Bracken and Patrick O’Sullivan, The Invisibility of Irish Migrants in British Health Research [41] Paul Delaney, Representations of the Travellers in the 1880s and 1900s [53] Lisa Nopkins, The Irish and the Germans in the Fiction of John Buchan and Erskine Childers [69]

REVIEW ARTICLE: James E. Doan, Revisiting the Blasket Island Memoirs [81] Island Cross- T alk: Pages from a Blasket Island Diary by Tomas O’Crohan; The Islandman by Tomas O’Crohan; The Western Island or The Great Blasket by Robin Flower; Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O’Sullivan; An Old Woman’s Reflections by Peig Sayers; A Pity Youth Does Not Last: Reminiscences of the Last of the Great Blasket Island’s Poets and Storytellers by Micheal O’Guiheen; and A Day in Our Life by Sean O’Crohan

REVIEWS/FOLKLORE, MYTHOLOGY & MEMOIR: Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity by Diarmuid 6 Giollain, reviewed by Jose Lanters Speaking Vol.s: A Dublin Childhood by Edith Newman Devlin; reviewed by Sarah Ferris

REVIEWS/HISTORY & POLITICS: Medieval Dublin I, ed. Sean Duffy, reviewed by Terry Barry Sir Arthur Chichester: Lord Deputy of Ireland 1605-16 by John McCavitt, reviewed by Nicholas Canny Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649: A Constitutional and Political Analysis by Micheal 6 SiochrU, reviewed by Robert Armstrong Political Ideas in Eighteenth-century Ireland, ed. S. J. Connolly; reviewed by Tom Bartlett The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Vol. 1: The Early Writings, ed. James T. Boulton & T. 0. McLoughlin; and Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France: New Interdisciplinary Essays, ed. John Whale; reviewed by Jefferson Holdridge Prince of Swindlers: John Sadlier MP, 1813-1856 by James O’Shea; and Clonmel, 1840-1900: Anatomy of an Irish Town by Sean O’Donnell, reviewed by Gerard Moran Mapping the Great Irish Famine by Lo Kennedy, P o So Ell, Eo Mo Crawford & Lo Ao Clarkson, reviewed by Thomas O’Loughlin Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture by Stephen Howe, reviewed by Richard Kirkland Colonial Discipline: the Making of the Irish Convict System by Patrick Carroll- Burke; reviewed by Joseph P o Starr MacBride’s Brigade: Irish Commandos in the Anglo-Boer War by Donal Po McCracken, reviewed by Denis Judd Before the Revolution: Nationalism, Social Change and Ireland’s Catholic Elite, 1879-1922 by Senia Paseta, reviewed by Peter Hart Grace Gifford Plunkett and Irish Freedom: Tragic Bride of 1916by Marie O’Neill; and The Sinn Fein Rebellion 'as They Saw It', ed. Keith Jeffery, reviewed by Mary Eo Daly A Nation of Extremes: the Pioneers in Twentieth-century Ireland by Diarmaid Ferriter; and Oracles of God: The Roman Catholic Church and Irish Politics, 1922-1937 by Patrick Murray, reviewed by Mary Harris Paths to a Settlement in Northern Ireland by Sean Farren & Robert Fo Mulvihill, reviewed by Robert Mahony Alfred Webb: the A utobiography of a Quaker Nationalist, ed. Marie Louise Legg; reviewed by John Benjamin Levitas Unfinished Business: State Killings and the Quest for Truth by Bill Rolston with Mairead Gilmartin; reviewed by Mary So Corcoran

REVIEWS/LITERATURE: Drama, Peiformance, and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland by Alan J O. Fletcher, reviewed by Dermot Cavanagh The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice and the Anglo-lrish Colonial Order by Margot Gayle Backus, reviewed by David Glover Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth Century Ireland by Terry Eagleton, reviewed by Matthew Campbell The Story of a Toiler’s Life by James Mullin, ed. Patrick Maume; reviewed by Liam Kennedy GeorgeMoore, 1852-1933 by Alan Frazier; and The Untilled Field by George Moore (1903), introduced by Richard Allen Cave, reviewed by Brendan Fleming Wilde Style: The Plays and Prose of Oscar Wilde by Neil Sammells, reviewed by Maureen O’Connor Yeats ’s Poetry, Drama and Prose, ed. James Pethica; reviewed by Robert Tracy Those Mingled Seas: the Poetry of w: Bo Yeats, the Beautiful and the SJ.tblime by Jefferson Holdridge; reviewed by Richard Greaves States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and the Irish Experiment by Vicki Mahaffey; and The Cast of Characters: A Reading of Ulysses by Paul Schwaber, reviewed by Ronan MacDonald Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories, ed. Liam Harte & Michael Parker, reviewed by Roberta Gefter Wondrich The Supreme Fictions of John Banville by Joseph McMinn; reviewed by Peter Dempsey The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel by Nicholas Grene, reviewed by Christina Hunt Mahony Brian Friel’s (Post)Colonial Drama: Language, Illusion, and Politics by F. C. McGrath, reviewed by Aidan Arrowsmith Other People’s Houses by Vona Groarke; and Seatown by Conor O’Callaghan; reviewed by Gregory Castle Toccata and Fugue by John F. Deane; and Music by Desmond Egan, reviewed by Neil Reeves

REVIEWS/MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES: Dialogues in the Margin: A Study of the 'Dublin University Magazine' by Wayne E. Hall; reviewed by James H. Murphy Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Music, VisualArts and Non-print Media, ed. Lois Oppenheim, reviewed by James Knowlson